pellicola

pellicola is a skill for Claude Code from tdimino/claude-code-minoan. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,926 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for building cinematic case-study pages for films, documentaries, photography portfolios, and other creative work. It produces a single HTML file with film-inspired layouts for images, credits, awards, and galleries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create production-company websites, documentary showcases, photographer portfolios, and project pages with film-style imagery, crew credits, festival awards, and animated scrolling.
Why use it?
It gives creative projects a consistent visual language without requiring a full web build system. It also organizes common portfolio sections so they do not have to be designed from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create production-company websites, documentary showcases, photographer portfolios, and project pages with film-style imagery, crew credits, festival awards, and animated scrolling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tdimino/claude-code-minoan/pellicola
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add tdimino/claude-code-minoan --skill pellicola
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tdimino/claude-code-minoan

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,926 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.02926
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01463
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00585
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00293

Measured 8d ago against content hash be53284bb4bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pellicola scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/pellicola_generator.py, scripts/validate_pellicola.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/design-media/pellicola/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build cinematic case study pages — the kind you see on film production company sites, documentary showcases, and photographer portfolios. Warm analog palette, domain-specific components, scroll-choreographed reveals. Single-file HTML, zero build step.

"Pellicola" is Italian for film — literally "little skin," the celluloid stock.

Creative Direction

The aesthetic is analog cinema on the web — warm cream backgrounds like unbleached paper stock, deep ink-black text, a single red accent reserved exclusively for the play button. Typography pairs a dramatic display serif (headlines, names) with a precise geometric sans (labels, navigation). Every image is framed like a film still — cream padding, rounded corners, subtle shadow creating a polaroid/celluloid look.

If the minoan-frontend-design skill is available, read it for broader aesthetic principles. Pellicola encodes those principles into a concrete design system for the cinematic case study genre. Pages built with Pellicola should score 16+/20 on /design-audit and 28+/40 on /design-critique.

Name the conceptual direction before coding. Default: "analog screening room." Override with project-specific direction when appropriate — "70mm documentary," "festival press kit," "darkroom portfolio."

Quick Start

# Generate a full case study page
python3 scripts/pellicola_generator.py --mode case-study --title "Taboo" --output taboo.html

# Generate just the hero section
python3 scripts/pellicola_generator.py --mode hero --title "Ana Maxim" --output hero.html

# Generate a credits grid
python3 scripts/pellicola_generator.py --mode credits --output credits.html

# Generate a dark footage gallery
python3 scripts/pellicola_generator.py --mode gallery --output gallery.html

# Validate a pellicola page
python3 scripts/validate_pellicola.py output.html

Or let Claude generate directly from the templates and references.

Modes

Mode Template What it generates
case-study assets/templates/case-study.html Full page: hero + credits + footage gallery + prizes + investors + next-project
hero assets/templates/hero-section.html Film-frame hero + title overlay + play button only
credits assets/templates/credits-grid.html Credit grid + director portrait card only
gallery assets/templates/footage-gallery.html Dark gallery section only (reusable dark image grid)

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 234 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A be53284bb4bb

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pellicola is a skill published in the GitHub repository tdimino/claude-code-minoan (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,926 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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